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April 11, 2022

Mission Critical Technology: Start-up Aims to Make Spacecraft More Sustainable

Docking one spacecraft to another is a very challenging procedure, which is why a pair of Carleton University engineering graduates started Obruta Space Solutions, an Ottawa-based company whose goal is to simplify the process of... More

November 11, 2021

Aerospace Engineering PhD Grad Shoots for the Stars

Following his graduation in fall 2021 with a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Scott Bishop has become the Assistant Dean of Students in the Faculty of Engineering at Dalhousie University and is now an Assistant Professor.... More

April 14, 2020

Trudeau Commends Carleton Engineering Grad Making Protective Shields

Last spring, when Felix Denomme graduated from Carleton University’s Aerospace Engineering program and got a job at Ottawa’s B-Con Engineering, he was excited about using his education and experience to fine-tune optical systems the company... More

September 6, 2019

Environment Minister Meets with Carleton Engineering Students to Discuss Diversity

Environment and Climate Change Minister, Catherine McKenna, sat down with a couple dozen students from Carleton University’s Faculty of Engineering and Design on Sept. 5, 2019, for an informal conversation about the value of equity,... More

October 24, 2018

Carleton Hosts NASA Hackathon

Forty-six Ottawa competitors took one big step for hack-kind at NASA’s international 48-hour hackathon over the Oct. 19 to 21 weekend. Using NASA and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) data sets, participants collaborated, conceptualized and crunched... More

March 16, 2018

Sound Barriers: Creating Quieter Planes

It was the best late Christmas present ever for Joana Rocha. In early January, after a couple years of design work, correspondence, fabrication, installation and calibration, Carleton’s new Aeroacoustics Testing Laboratory in the university’s High-Speed... More

February 13, 2017

From Aerospace to Outer Space

Carleton PhD student Scott Bishop has big dreams and high hopes as one of a few dozen people still on the Canadian Space Agency’s list of potential astronauts. Bishop, a Nova Scotia native who’s in... More

October 28, 2016

Engineering Students Tackle Capstone Projects

Last spring, in a parking lot on the National Research Council campus in east Ottawa, a team of students from Carleton’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering simulated a rear impact collision between a car... More

October 19, 2016

Critical Climate Research Gets $5.5-Million Boost

In a seminar about the global energy picture that he gives to first-year students every fall, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Prof. Matthew Johnson dispenses a detailed and sobering dose of reality. Despite an evolution towards... More

July 6, 2016

Mission Possible

Joana Rocha spends a lot of time thinking about noise. Specifically, how to reduce noise inside and outside airplanes in flight. This is a safety issue, as well as a question of comfort for passengers... More

June 1, 2016

Above and Beyond

It looks like a giant bowling ball, or maybe a conceptual art installation. The black fibreglass sphere, with a matte finish and a diameter of nearly three metres, commands attention in the middle of a... More

May 24, 2016

Taking Flight

Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as remotely piloted aircraft systems, have lifted off into the mainstream over the past decade. The term "drone" has navigated its way into our everyday vocabulary and ignited our... More